Does a GIGABYTE GA-F2A88X-D3H motherboard need Flashing before use with a Kaveri AMD A8-7600?

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bhogervorst

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Hi,

Sorry if I posed this in the wrong place, I'm new to the Tom's Hardware forums.

Anyway, I am planning on building a light weight gaming PC, and of course, I decided to list my components on pcpartpicker.com, because, why not? It's a cool web site!

My two main components:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-F2A88X-D3H
CPU: AMD A8-7600 Kaveri

But I noticed that pcpartpicker.com found the following incompatibility:
"Some AMD A88X chipset motherboards may need a BIOS update prior to using Kaveri CPUs"

At first, I simply dismissed this, but on futher research, I found that this meant that I might have to buy another, older CPU in order to flash the BIOS to work with the 7600.

This is a problem, as I am on a tight budget and cannot afford to buy another CPU just to flash the motherboard.

I would like to keep the CPU I have but I can still find another motherboard.

My questions are:
1. Will I have to worry about this problem?
2. If it is an issue, Can I just pick another motherboard?
3. If I needed to pick another motherboard, what would be a good ASUS or Gigabyte motherboard under $75 with an FM2+ socket that wouldn't have this issue?
4. Are there any work-arounds instead of buying another CPU?

I am happy to accept any answers, please let me know If I should have posted elsewhere :)

Thanks,
-B
 
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bhogervorst

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Thanks clutchc, I greatly appreciate your feedback!

About it being a generic warning, Yes and No, I think. This is because, while researching this problem, I encountered several people who actually had this problem. But most of the time, they had space AMD CPU's laying around to do the update with.

I do not want to take ANY risks though and would almost rather select another motherboard to avoid this altogether.

Thanks though,
- B
 
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But how far back were those folks writing about their issues? I'm betting it was quite awhile back.
 
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You are very right, I didn't consider the dates at which the posts where written. And yes,I do prefer Asus over gigabyte.

I think I am going to try and avoid that specific motherboard altogether, so I'm going with the Asus X88A PLUS. It's cheaper to.

Thanks,
- B
 
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Yeah, I'm going to go with the A88X PLUS.
Any thoughts?
I would expect that even though I still get the same incompatibility warning from pcpartpicker.com, this motherboard will work.

Thanks, I think I can call this problem solved!
- B
 
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If you look at the CPU support list for that board, you'll see that the A8-7600 requires a 1402 or later BIOS. It looks like there have been several later BIOS updates since then. So, you should have no worries.
 
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Okay, thanks.
That was just what i was looking for.

- B
 
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